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Core Genres to Collect

The fluid nature of the videogame industry renders any core genre list outdated very quickly, thus making any list extremely difficult to compile. As a result, we concentrate on offering a genre- list of core games, with the caution to always remain flexible in offerings. We focus on the following five genres: Social, Narrative, Action, Knowledge, and Strategy.

Social : Games that require some degree of socialization. o Party games: Games that require two or more players.

• : Party, Super Monkey Balls, Raving Ribbids • PS3: Little Big Planet, Lemmings, • 360: Portal o Strategy games: Games with an emphasis on problem solving.

• Wii: Battalion Wars 2, 2 • PS3: Record of Agarest War • : Command and Conquer, Civilization Revolution

Narrative: Games that have a storyline and requires a player to embody a character in context. o Role-Playing Games (RPGs): Games that uses character development as the main part of the game. It can be turned based or real-time action based combat. A key part of the RPG is for the character to increase the inventory, wealth, or statistics of the character during the progression of the game.

• Wii: Tales of Symphonia • PS3: Final Fantasy, Fallout, Dragon Age, Elder Scroll • XBOX 360: Fable III, Dungeon Siege, Mass Effect

Action: Games that require movement, quick thinking, and reflexes. o Rhythm games: Game play uses music as timing.

• Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Dance Dance Revolution o Wii, Kinect, Move games: Games that are especially designed to use the new system.

• Wii: , Wii Play, • PS3: Sports Champions • XBOX 360: , Forza Motorsports 4 o Sports games: Any game involving sports.

• Any EA Sports title o Fighting games: Classic hand to hand combat games.

• Street Fighter, Mortal Combat, Marvel vs. Capcom o Shooter games: These can be from a 1st person or 3rd person perspective.

• Call of Duty, Halo, Medal of Honor o Adventure: Games that feature a story, usually driven by the character and the game environment.

• Wii: Lego, Broken Sword, Sonic, Mario, Zelda • PS3: Grand Theft Auto, Uncharted • XBOX 360: LA Noire, Transformers, Lara Croft

Knowledge: Games that make knowledge fun (i.e. trivia, game shows, etc.)

• Mario Party, Sim City, Family Feud

Strategy: Games that require a player to make decisions (e.g. area control, trading, role selection, worker placement, tile placement, route planning, etc.) to affect the outcome of the game.

• Yugi-Oh, Pokemon, Command and Conquer, Civilizations, Poker